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  2. Madras (cloth) - Wikipedia

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    Madras is a lightweight cotton fabric with typically patterned texture and tartan design, used primarily for summer clothing such as pants, shorts, lungi, dresses, and jackets. The fabric takes its name from the former name of the city of Chennai in south India .

  3. How a humble Indian fabric became a symbol of luxury in 1960s ...

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    A madras fabric weaving workshop in Chennai, the Indian city once known as Madras, circa 1990. ... From there, madras “became a staple for both free and enslaved Black people,” especially ...

  4. The Chennai Silks - Wikipedia

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    In 2007, a Guinness world record - "most expensive silk saree" was created by Chennai Silks. [5] It was worth about $100,021; £50,679 (worth ₹41 lakhs) and features reproductions of 11 famous paintings by the Indian artist Raja Ravi Varma.

  5. Madras (costume) - Wikipedia

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    A traditional four-piece costume. The Wob Dwyiet (or Wobe Dwiette), a grand robe worn by the earlier French settlers. The madras is the traditional pattern of the women and girls of Dominica and St. Lucia, and its name is derived from the madras cloth, a fabric used in the costume.

  6. Raymond Group - Wikipedia

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    A Raymonds Store in Esplanade, Kolkata.. Raymond Group is an Indian branded fabric and fashion retailer, [2] incorporated in 1925. It produces suiting fabric, with a capacity of producing 31 million meters of wool and wool-blended fabrics.

  7. Nalli (wardrobe store) - Wikipedia

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    Nalli was established in T. Nagar in 1928 by Nalli Chinnasamy Chetti, a weaver who belonged to the Padmasali community. [1] Chinnasamy Chetti was a famous weaver of Kanchipuram sarees who had been weaving silk sarees since 1900 and gifted a Kanchipuram saree, the Durbar Pet, as a souvenir to George V during his visit to India in 1911.